We are proud to announce the release of RHINO LIVE, the new RandomControl LIVE plug-in that embeds Arion 2 into Rhinoceros 5.

In the upcoming days we will add some video tutorials with a tour of the features of the plug-in. Until then, here’s a link to the RHINO LIVE manual.

What about v2.4.1?

RHINO LIVE is based on RCSDK v2.4.1 (the latest version of the Arion core), and hence the version number is RHINO LIVE v2.4.1. We have decided to release RHINO LIVE separately from Arion stand-alone and MAX LIVE in order to work on Arion/MAX v2.4.x with the calm of having put the RHINO LIVE release behind us. We expect to release Arion/MAX v2.4.x in the upcoming weeks.

Why RHINO LIVE and what about XSI LIVE?

When we first announced Arion 2 we said that we would only work on two LIVE plug-ins: MAX and XSI. There are some strong reasons why we have decided to work on RHINO LIVE. Among them we could highlight the amount of requests for a RHINO plug-in that we have received, and the fantastic support that we’ve received by Mcneel themselves. In addition to this, the Rhinoceros SDK is quite clean, and Rhinoceros itself is a tight app (not as cumbersome as MAX or XSI), so it’s been possible to create what we regard as a fantastic plug-in that will be easy to maintain properly.

We do -not- have plans to work on any other LIVE plug-ins in the foreseeable future. Actually, our focus now is going to be set in XSI LIVE as soon as v2.4.x is released. Actually, we expect to release XSI LIVE during the first half of 2013.

Once the three LIVE plug-ins are finished (XSI/MAX/RHINO) we will work on new iterations and improvements for them and for the stand-alone as well.